Hi everyone. I am currently using the Direct X 7.0 SDK on my software developemnt computer running Windows 98. I would like to know if there is a seperate SDK for Direct X that needs to be downloaded in order to write Direct X code for Windows 2000. I know that Windows 2000 has a different Direct X run time library than Windoes ME since 2000 is off the NT kernel and ME is of the 9x kernel, but what I am not sure of is whether or not there is a different Direct X SDK for Windows 2000 that I have to download. I need to know because since I am a senior in high school going to university next year, I will be getting my laptop, and I might want to get Windows 2000 instead of Windows ME since it is a faster OS. I also would like to know if anyone has any suggestions for a laptop. My absolute #1 choice right now is the Dell Inspiron 8000. I love this laptop, and will get the UXGA display and Geforce2Go options. I also like the Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 with the Geforce2Go. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Edem Attiogbe

No, there isn''t a different SDK.

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Martee
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I have found that many of my DirectX programs have trouble with Win 2000, I am using Win 98, so I would like to know how to make them compatible too! However, this has only been with Visual Basic, when I use VC++, it seems to work with Win 2000 so maybe it''s just a VB issue.

DirectX 8.0 performs better on Windows 2000 than it does on ME or 98, because DirectX 8.0 uses a hardware abstraction layer (HAL), just like Windows 2000, and Win98 and ME do not use HAL.